Hee hee I love the fact that my hair color alone could have gotten me killed...now that it just gets me teased, I have not yet been a victim of gingerism (racism against redheads). So I've decided to see what good books are out there on red hair.

My favorite is The Roots of Desire: the myth, meaning and sexual power of red hair by Marion Roach. It has a really pretty cover too!

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Many times man lives and diesBetween his two eternities,That of race and that of soulAnd ancient Ireland knew it all.

" To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet, and is carried about as a burden. The many ghosts are always a part of them, inescapable."Geddes MacGregor

Hope, fear, false-joy, and trouble,Are these four winds which daily toss this bubble,His breath’s a vapour, and his life’s a span;Tis glorious misery to be born a man. ~ from a Cornish gravestone

"Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh.” "God defend me from that Welsh fairy,Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!” William Shakespeare quotes

Well, around here it could also get you admired devotedly. Look out for a handsome devil named Dundee, who has a weakness for for ginger-locked lassies.

what me.... ???? i am innocent i tell ya ... its not me fault... its in the weave of ma kilt... besides her photo looks golden blonde but i did see a hint of red... and now that i know for sure and she like yeats... and hopefully burns... the perfect lass and me the old bugger i am ... oh by the way watch out for a fellow named madadh ... he has an eye for red too...

Thanks for the book info- as redheads run strongly on both mine and my husband's families (both Scots) and myself writing a fairy tale about the origins of the redheads, I would love to check this out.

There is another red heided character; His name is Jamie Alexander Malcolm McKenzie Fraser in Diana Gabaldon's series Outlander...a character that I literally fell in love with....a perfect man/gentleman in my books....are there any out there like that. I think not.

Oh! yes there is I'm married to one,maybe not as tall as Jamie but with long blond reddish hair and blue greenish eyes and muscular with long lashes it's almost silly. And he is the perfect gentleman.His name is not Jamie of course but has Alexander in it.And this one is not fiction for sure and prefer it that way too.LOA

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"Few men are brave:many become so through training and discipline."Flavius Vegetius Renatus

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strenght to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."Christopher Reeve